Chapter one
First day back…
Hailey opened her eyes as her alarm buzzed her out of a dream, she was holding her pillow burring her face into it, her other hand reached out smacking the snooze button again, that was Hailey in a nutshell, snooze until the last moment. Hailey's hair was a mess around her face, but she laid in her queen size bed, her room punk rock style that had clothes dirty, all over the floor, she was spread eagle on the bed, her covered some placed, but Hailey didn't sleep in much, a pair of boys boxers and a string vest.
Sierra opened the door to her sister's room, it was hard pushing through clothes, then seeing Hailey on her bed, it was the worst thing about starting school, no wait, Sierra was starting high school, she was going to have her first day, and her lazy ass sister was going to make them late!
"Hailey…" she said lightly, and she could see a little movement from her sister's head.
"Fuck off!" Hailey mumbled from under the mountains of pillows covering her face, and Sierra wondered if she could breathe properly under them all, her sister's room smelt of pine fresh, normally to cover up the cigarette smoke. Hailey was the girl that didn't care, but Sierra cared, she didn't want to be late her first day of high school.
"Hailey, It's seven, school starts in an hour and a half, you need to shower, dress, and get us to SCHOOL!" she stood at the foot of Hailey's bed, she wasn't normally a fowl temper person, but Hailey pissed her off a lot of the time, well only in the morning. So now Sierra grabbed her ankles. "Out of bed time sis!" she said pulling her hard, but Hailey had wrapped her hands on the bars of her headboard.
"Leave me alone!" Hailey cried trying to keep in bed, but the alarm went off again, she needed to stop the noise, but letting go, it would help Sierra pull her out of bed quicker. "Linc is gonna drop us off, his gonna be her at eight!" Hailey yelled to Sierra still plying tug of war with her sister's legs.
"GET UP!" Sierra yelled darkly still pulling her sisters leg. She stopped putting the freshly shaven leg to her mouth. Sierra bit her leg before jumping back just missing a kick from the other leg.
"I SAID FUCK OFF!" Hailey snapped sitting up in a wild twist. "Your boob is hanging out." Sierra lightly said looking at her sister.
Hailey grabbed her tit and squeezed it in front of her little sister before popping it back into her shirt. "I said, Lincoln is going to drop us off!" She snapped in a yawn. "So! Get up down, get dressed be ready!" Sierra couldn't say much she was standing in two towels one around her body and one around her hair.
Hailey's vision came clear and she looked at her sister. "Do you know how much I hate you?" She stood up fixing her - Lincoln's boxers.
"Yeah... You continue to say." Sierra was watching her sister. She turned. "Shower." She reminded heading to her room to put on an outfit.
Hailey grabbed sighed rubbing her neck it kinked. She growled heading to the washroom she got naked on the way there leaving her clothing in the hallway. She stumbled into the shower, turning the water on. "FUCKING COLD!" She had turned on the wrong knob.
Sierra giggled before opening the door to her own bedroom, the same size as Hailey's but it was neater, much neater, everything had it's place, everything was in a order only she knew, Hailey's room was violent pinks and purples, but Sierra's room was soft, pastel blues and green, she had her outfit for today pressed cleaned and laying on he queen size bed, she had been awake since five thirty, made her bed, had breakfast and showered, but her sister never did any of them things, it made Sierra feel helpless.
Sierra now got dressed into he jeans, a blouse that was a nice mint green, her Elmo socks and lime green sneakers, she sat down on her work desk, on the desk was a framed photo, it was the only one she loved, it was family vacation, Hailey was standing up with a cute bathing suit, she was nine, and Sierra was seven, sitting on her daddy's lap, it looked like a good time, but little did the photo show the pain he was in, the chemo wasn't working, and the doctor's gave him so long to live.
"Oh suck my tit tooth paste!" Hailey hissed violently at it throwing it against the mirror a large bubble of toothpaste went splat on it.
Hailey tilted her head. She ignored it brushing her teeth with the newest tooth paste. She brushed carefully taking her time with it. She rinsed her mouth with mouthwash before looking to the bubble of toothpaste. She smirked taking a q-tip she wrote 'Hailey' along the mirror in the paste. She then fixed the towel on her head and walked down the hall again to her room.
Looking around for something that didn't smell, she grabbed her fitted ripped up jeans. She put on her boy shorts first. Fucking underwear, Hailey hated them. She slid on her jeans feeling the cool breeze all over her legs from the cuts. She took the rest of the towel off picking her up bra, she put it on. Finding a shirt could be the hard part. She kicked around clothes with her bare foot. A bong flew across the room. "Oops." Hailey whispered before picking up a purple tank top she smelled it and smiled pulling it on. She grabbed the striped arm warmers that went with it. She then took her black socks, pulling them up. She stepped into her combat boots not bothering to tie the laces. She looked around to the clock. Five minutes to eight.
"SIERRA, Linc's gonna be here soon!" She called from her room rushing to her bedside nightstand taking her Zippo lighter, smokes, and joint before finding her leather jacket, well it was Lincoln's leather jacket. Hailey slipped her arms into it, taking a sniff before opening the door to her room rushing to her sister's.
"Come on…" she opened the door seeing her still looking to the photo, and Hailey placed a hand around her neck over the cross.
"Dad wouldn't want you late for school…" Hailey's voice went soft, and Sierra turned around brushing a tear from her face.
"He used to sing to you, and me when he'd drop us off at school, he'd sing to us about getting smart…" Sierra felt her voice breaking and Hailey rushed into the room hugging her little sister.
"I know, I know…" she whispered before pulling away from the hug, her eyes looked deep into her little sister's, she looked just like their father, Hailey looked like their mother, and she hated that. "But remember, soon I'm an adult, me and you, we are going to get out own place, and I'm going to look after us!" Hailey's eyes dead focused on Sierra as she nodded. "Now chin up little madam president, Linc's gonna be here soon, and I have a present for him…" She smiled getting to her feet. Sierra took this time to study over her sister, she was a woman, a figure most would die for, but then Sierra knew how much Hailey hated to look like their mother, in honesty Sierra knew their mother was passed out in her bed, after another late night of boozing and snorting it up.
Hailey tried protecting Sierra from it. Sierra knew that, but there is only so many lies you can make to as to why mommy is sleeping in the bathtub with flour all over her. Hailey shook the thoughts in her head forgetting the time their mother allowed seven year old Sierra into her cocaine. Child protective services were called but they didn't do anything. Hailey remembered everything. That's when the beatings started from the boyfriend, that was when ... Hailey grew up before her time to grow up should have happened. A twelve years old bright hopeful shouldn't have had to stop because she needed to become a protector and a mother to her ten year old sister. Who'd have nightmares ... Withdrawal spells for the next two years all because that stupid bitch that push them out of her cunt couldn't put her fucking cocaine on a higher self! It made Hailey so angry! Snapping from the thought as the door was knocked on.
"Hailey, come on…" Sierra spoke in a whispered walking past their mother's room and Hailey snapped out of her thoughts, she nodded walking down the stairs behind Sierra, she didn't like it here, it was their home, but Hailey hated it. Sierra was quick to open the front door, Lincoln stood there in his tight white t-shirt and worn out jeans, his boots mucked as always, Sierra looked up to him before glancing into the back seat of the car to see Michael, she smiled rushing to the car, and opened it up jumping in.
"Pickle…" she said looking him over, he was wearing clean jeans and a blue sweat shirt.
"Hey Sierra, I'm starting High School…" he smiled bright, and Sierra screamed bundling him in a hug.
Lincoln now stood in the door frame watching Hailey do her normal checks, he found it strange how she go into the kitchen make sure the doors locked, the gas is off, the knifes were all there, she was like a old woman, but he didn't ask her too many questions.
"You gonna give my jacket back?" he asked while she walked into the living room checking the room about, but then shook her head, her hair still damp starting to wave back to it's normal shape.
"I got you a present…" she smiled showing him the joint, and he now smiled taking it off her, his hand brushed down her arm making her stand still, but then in the passenger seat she saw her. "Veronica!" she kept still in the house, "you brought Veronica!" her voice tried to keep low, but he eyes glared to the dark haired girl.
Lincoln watched Hailey knowing the tones with her; it was obvious this one and Lincoln had taken the time to study his best friend.
"God. Hailey..." He sighed, "It's not like that really... She showed up this morning and Michael," he narrowed his eyes, "asked if she wanted a drive to school ..."
Hailey glared. "Lemme guess she didn't take to long to say yes." She grabbed up her messenger bag it was army green the strap was studded like an army bush belt.
"Don't go PMS on me!" Lincoln snapped narrowing his eyes. Hailey kicked him with her steeled toed boot. It stung Lincoln but he ignored it. "Get in the car." He turned with his key in his hand.
"Hell no!" Hailey hissed darkly.
"Now." Lincoln didn't look at her getting into the driver seat. Hailey glared. She got out of the house and locked the door she walked to the back throwing her bag in she sat down crossing her arms.
"Hey Hailey, finally a junior…" Veronica said in a polite tone, she was glancing to Lincoln starting the car, but Hailey kept her mouth shut. "I thought you was gonna be held back…" she added desperate to start a conversation, but Hailey took out her smoke, opened a window and lit up, making it clear she wasn't going to talk to her.
"So I have a new calculator…" Michael said in the awkward silence to follow, Hailey's hand out the window while Lincoln drove them focusing on the road.
"Really, sounds cool, I wanted one, but my mum, she said it's smarter to use my brain…" Sierra smiled looking to her back pack, it was the one Hailey used to have.
"No she had a little waver, it was school stuff, or a fix, we know the winner…" her voice dry taking a long pull of the smoke, she didn't have the best summer, she work three jobs, three jobs so she could get Sierra all she needed to start high school, she didn't care about herself, she was doing this for Lincoln.
Sierra looked down playing with the bag slowly as Lincoln drove down the road toward the school. The high school he'd dropped out of for various reasons.
Veronica turned around looking at Michael; really she just wanted to scope out Hailey. She was nosey like that. "So Michael...." She stated. Michael didn't look up he was showing Sierra the calculator and she looked entranced by it.
Veronica said an 'hmp' noise crossing her arms.
Hailey took another puff flicking the ashes. She handed the smoke to Lincoln, who took it. Veronica growled.
Lincoln ignored. "Oh like my new fuzzy dice." He pointed to the bright pink dice on his mirror.
"Linc, they're purple…" Hailey leaned between Veronica and Lincoln playfully groping them with her hand. Veronica rolled her eyes at the sexual innuendo Hailey was giving off.
"Hailey, your butt's in Michael's face!" Sierra spanked her sister, and Hailey moved back into her seat.
"I thought you would like purple…" Lincoln said hopefully he flicked more of the ash from the smoke, and Veronica kept her stare out the window. Sierra was now looking to the back of Veronica's head, she knew this girl hated Hailey, she could tell by the way she holds herself, but Sierra didn't like Veronica, because she says that Hailey is wasting her life.
"I love purple, so much I might steal them…" she laughed playfully rubbing the leather jacket she was wearing and Veronica looked jealous, most girls would kill to be able to wear his jacket, but Hailey stole it after a party and refused to give it back.
"Like my jacket, I don't think so…" Lincoln laughed pulling into the high school parking lot.
"Okay. I'm scared." Sierra looked to the tall older hotter people around the lot. A bunch of people were staring from the open window you could hear people whispering like; 'Burrows, Damian' A bunch of other things.
"Uh..." Michael felt like a geek now.
"Stick close to Hailey oh and do not miss off the shop teacher." Lincoln snickered flicking the butt of the smoke away. Michael in shop made him laugh. Veronica had gotten out of the car she stormed off being a bitch face. Hailey got out of the car and heads turned. People stopped talking as Sierra followed Hailey's lead.
"Later Linc…" Hailey smiled while he held his hand out the window.
"My Jacket…" he said while she snuggled into the leather taking in the rich smell, her eyes finding his.
"My virginity…" she raised a eyebrow as he now took his hand back into the car and she laughed. "See you tonight…" she added while he started to drive away.
Sierra and Michael both stared to Hailey, it was strange how the fact they both knew what she meant, but felt awkward standing by her side.
"Ok, first things first you two, go to the main hall, they have a orientation, go classes, try and stick together, Lunch meet me in the quad, ok…" She ruffled her hand into Michael's hair, "I gotta take care of some unfinished business, so see you at lunch…" Hailey now walked away leaving Michael and Sierra alone.
"What does she mean, 'unfinished business' Sierra?" Michael asked while they started to walk to the main building, she glanced as her sister ran to a group of punks like Hailey would be seen dead with normal people. Sierra shook her head keeping to the lines on the ground telling them where to go.
"I don' know, it can be anything with her…" Sierra took one more look back before they entered the building, she kept close to Michael, but still felt scared, she wished her Dad was here, he always made things less scary.
"People are staring..." Michael stated the obviously like usual. Sierra was the only one who enjoyed that. She looked to the class lists hanging on the wall. Michael was tallest. He avoided all the people but looked over the list. "There is you!" His eyes flashed down to the 'S' Surnames. His heart speed up, he didn't set himself up for enjoyment. But his rate slowed. "Same class!!!" He brightly grinned.
"YAY!" Sierra put her arms around his hugging him closely.
"Aww this that cute... Freshmen." A ginger sophomore was looking down at them.